Date: April 20, 2007   Time: Noon to 1:00 Title:  "Can Children With Autism Recover?" Speaker: Deborah A. Fein, PhD University of Connecticut Where:  Waisman Conference Center Room T216, Second Floor, North Tower About the Talk: Autism Spectrum Disorders have been regarded as life-long disabilities, despite the fact that improvement can be brought about in language, academic, and social functioning.  However, some studies of behavioral interventions have reported outcomes in which children functioned in the normal range on various behavioral and cognitive measures. In this presentation, we will discuss three studies in which children with well-documented ASD have lost the diagnosis. One study describes children who moved from a diagnosis of ASD to ADHD; one describes children who moved off the ASD spectrum but had residual complex language impairments, and the third looks at predictors of optimal outcome in very young children with ASD. For Further Information: Contact Teresa Palumbo at 263-5837 or palumbo@waisman.wisc.edu The Waisman Center Seminar Series is partially funded by the Friends of the Waisman Center and NIH grant P30 HD003352.   To download an Adobe Acrobat file of the entire seminar series schedule click here. (pdf schedule coming soon!)